Hi, I’m
Justin.

Many interests. Always exploring.

Justin Yu wearing glasses, a dark suit and a patterned tie, against a brick wall.

Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Nanyang Global Scholar

Notes on
becoming.
Justin YuNTU, SingaporeOpen my notebookClose notebook

StudyingBiomedical Sciences & BioBusiness

FromJakarta, Indonesia

Right nowWorking toward a future in medicine. Exploring science, music, technology, and the people who make it all worthwhile.

NTUSingapore
My chapter, right now.

Different disciplines.
One curious mind.

Science asks why. People give it purpose.

I’m studying Biomedical Sciences and BioBusiness at NTU, exploring technology through hands-on projects, and pursuing a future in medicine through the NTU–Duke-NUS Pathways to Medicine programme.
Follow an idea across three worldsMy learning journey

01 Science / Medicine

Start with the evidence.

Biomedical Sciences at NTU grounds my questions in biology. Through URECA with LKCMedicine and the National Cancer Centre Singapore, I’m exploring genetic discrimination in insurance — where medicine, ethics, and policy meet.

02 Business

Make good ideas sustainable.

My BioBusiness studies connect scientific ideas with the systems that help them reach people. Next comes a planned Year 4 Semester 1 exchange at Copenhagen Business School, learning alongside Bioentrepreneurship master’s students.

03 Technology

Learn by building.

From websites and 3D design at Face AI to chatbot exploration with MOKneeTOR and a drone prototype called DreamCatcher, building gives me a way to test ideas and learn from people with different expertise.

  • AIRecognising biomedical patterns
  • LLMsNavigating scientific literature
  • Machine learningExploring biomedical data

04 Convergence

Different disciplines.
People at the centre.

I’m working toward a future in medicine with an interdisciplinary mindset: understand the evidence, consider how an idea can last, and build something people can use.

Three perspectives.
Explore what I bring to each.

More about my background

Science & medicine

Biomedical Sciences at NTU, URECA research on genetic discrimination, and the NTU–Duke-NUS Pathways to Medicine programme connect scientific questions with people’s lives.

  • Biomedical sciences
  • Research & evidence
  • Genetic discrimination
  • Ethics & policy
Explore my research

Business & innovation

BioBusiness studies and financial and business work with HAVOC help me connect people, resources, and decisions. My planned CBS exchange will deepen the bioentrepreneurship side.

  • BioBusiness foundations
  • Business coordination
  • Community leadership
  • Bioentrepreneurship interests
See my learning journey

Technology & making

I learn by making websites, 3D models, manuals, chatbots, and prototypes. Face AI, MOKneeTOR, Sortify, and DreamCatcher have brought that curiosity into team projects.

  • Web development
  • 3D modelling & design
  • AI chatbot exploration
  • Hardware–software prototyping
Explore DreamCatcher

A lab, a boardroom, a line of code: each offers a different way to understand the same challenge. I want to keep connecting those perspectives, with people at the centre.

My learning journey

02 / My learning journey

Rooted in science.
Open to what’s next.

Building a foundation at NTU, pursuing a path toward medicine, and learning how ideas find their place in the world.

  1. Part of my journey now
    Current

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    BSc in Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness (Double Major)

    June 2025 — August 2029 expected

    Studying biomedical science alongside the business of life sciences, as a Nanyang Global Scholar and a member of the inaugural NTU Honours College cohort.

    Learning across

    • Biomedical sciences
    • BioBusiness
    • Interdisciplinary learning
  2. Part of my journey now
    Current

    NTU & Duke-NUS Medical School

    NTU–Duke-NUS Pathways to Medicine

    Programme participant

    Continuing my journey towards medicine through the NTU–Duke-NUS Pathways to Medicine Programme, while building a broader foundation in science, technology and business.

    Learning across

    • Pathways to medicine
    • Healthcare
  3. Looking ahead
    Looking ahead

    Copenhagen Business School

    Bioentrepreneurship exchange

    Upcoming · Year 4, Semester 1

    Selected for a one-semester exchange, learning alongside Year 2 students in the MSc in Business Administration and Bioentrepreneurship. I look forward to exploring how scientific ideas become sustainable life-science ventures.

    Planned coursework

    • Finance and Accounting in Bio-Business
    • Bio Markets
    • Innovation Challenges in BioBusiness
    • Bioentrepreneurship

03 / People, places & possibilities

My life at NTU.

Learning happens in the lab.
And in rehearsals, conversations,
and the people you meet along the way.

01

Inaugural InnovScape cohort · Scholars’ Representative · Communities Director

NTU Honours College

Part of the inaugural InnovScape cohort, now serving as the first NHC Scholars’ Representative and Scholars’ Communities Director (Internal Relations).

Justin Yu’s blue and orange NTU Honours College campaign poster with a cohort photograph, the words Five Scapes One Community, and a voting date of 4 September 2026.From the campaign ↗
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02

Nanyang Global Scholar

Nanyang Global Scholar

Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness at NTU — and a reason to keep exploring beyond one discipline.

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Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeAwarded July 2025Current

I’m a Nanyang Global Scholar in NTU’s inaugural Honours College cohort, studying a double major in Biomedical Sciences and BioBusiness. I want to understand both the science behind better healthcare and the systems that help it reach people. The journey is also taking me towards medicine through the NTU–Duke-NUS Pathways to Medicine Programme, with a selected exchange at Copenhagen Business School ahead.

03

URECA researcher

Questions beyond the lab

Researching genetic discrimination in insurance, where biomedical science meets policy, trust and patient protection.

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LKCMedicine & National Cancer Centre SingaporeAugust 2026 — presentOngoing research

Through URECA, I’m working on Genetic Discrimination in Insurance with LKCMedicine and the Cancer Genetics Service at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, under A/Prof Joanne Ngeow and Ms Jeanette Yuen. I’m exploring the ethical, social and policy questions around how genetic information is used. It is a chance to look beyond what new technology makes possible and ask what the people affected by it need.

04

Secretary & clarinettist

NTU Symphony Orchestra

Finding my part in a bigger sound — on clarinet and on the orchestra’s executive committee.

NTU Symphony Orchestra musicians standing with their instruments on a wooden concert stage, with the conductor at the centre.
NTU Symphony Orchestra, on stage together.
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NTU Symphony OrchestraClarinet: January 2026 — present · Secretary: June 2026 — presentCurrent

At NTUSO, I play clarinet and serve as secretary on the executive committee. My first orchestra concert was at the School of the Arts Singapore Concert Hall on 5 June 2026. Keeping music alongside classes and projects takes practice — in both senses — but it gives me another way to listen, connect with people and build something together.

05

Financial and Business Director

Hall 5 Orientation

Helping make a new chapter possible through HAVOC’s financial and business work.

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NTU Hall 5 Orientation Committee (HAVOC)April 2026 — presentCurrent

I’m the Financial and Business Director for the Hall 5 Orientation Committee, HAVOC. It’s a chance to contribute to the work behind an orientation experience, and to learn how people, resources, and organisation come together in a campus community.

06

Indonesian Orientation Group Leader

A familiar welcome

Helping a new place feel familiar through Indonesian orientation and Get Together Day.

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Indonesian orientation communityAcademic year 2025/26Completed

Coming from Jakarta, I value the connections that make a new place feel a little more familiar. Being an Indonesian Orientation Group Leader, with Get Together Day among my first-year activities, gave me another way to meet people and take part in that welcome.

04 / Learning by making

Curious enough to try.
Things I’ve made.

Questions become ideas.
Ideas become something you can use.
Here are a few things I’ve explored.

Face AI — 1 of 5

05 / Notes from the journey

Things that made me
think a little differently.

Reflections from my LinkedIn posts.
The conversations, projects, and unexpected side quests that stay with me.

Healthcare AI Symposium · July 2026

Science first. People always.

Seeing healthcare innovation with Face AI brought the connections into focus: start with scientific evidence, use business to build something sustainable, and use technology to help it reach people. That is the intersection I want to grow toward.

My work with Face AI

DreamCatcher · Making and Tinkering

The side quests matter.

A biomedical sciences student learning alongside engineering students, trying to make a drone wake someone up. The prototype wasn’t perfect. But electronics, computer vision, 3D printing, and working through problems together gave me new ways to think.

Meet DreamCatcher

TEDxNTU · Inter[X]

A different perspective changes things.

A neuroscientist in a business school. An actor helping medical students practise difficult conversations. TEDxNTU reminded me that learning across disciplines means being willing to step into another perspective — and making room for art, empathy, and curiosity along the way.

More reflections on LinkedIn

06 / The other pages

Beyond the labels.

Justin Yu in an NTU T-shirt and purple bandana, raising his hand.

Student, researcher, musician — and more.
A few things that keep me curious.

Music

A different kind of conversation.

Music gives me another way to listen and contribute. I play clarinet with NTU Symphony Orchestra and drums with NTU Hall V Jamband, following years of clarinet with the Canisius Wind Ensemble. There’s something special about many individual parts finding a shared rhythm.

Leadership

Making things happen, together.

As NTUSO Secretary, Financial and Business Director for the Hall 5 orientation committee (HAVOC), and an NTU Honours College scholars’ representative, I get to contribute beyond my own work. I’m interested in the practical things that help a community work well: communication, responsibility, and making room for others.

Curiosity

Room to keep exploring.

Some of my favourite questions begin with “could we make this?” Software, design, and drone exploration give that curiosity somewhere to go. Alongside building, my involvement with NTU Red Cross Youth keeps community service part of my university life.

A future in medicine.
A mind that stays open.

I’m working toward becoming a physician, while making room for the other ways I can learn and contribute. Researcher, builder, musician, teammate — each part of the journey has something to teach me.

Feel free to reach out!

A beaker falls from the previous chapter and spills atoms and bonded molecules. They assemble into “Thank you for visiting!”, react, and form “Feel free to reach out!”.

A question, an idea, or a different perspective. I’d love to hear it.